education
* Type:Rider, a game about the history of typography. It's beautiful and fun. * This post at Wandering Scientist. I love the two quotes at the end. * This post at the Chronicle of Higher Education blog. I'm bothered whenever I hear someone preaching about the "real
books
The Book Teaching What You Don't Know by Therese Huston The Premise Instructors frequently need to teach outside their expertise. This book offers reassurance that you're not alone, and suggestions for making such experiences successful and rewarding. "Can you be a good teacher before you&
gradLife
Hello Internet, I've missed you. I feel like I've been on leave for the last month, traveling to far off places in Thesisland. Or perhaps I've been asleep (thesis coma?), since I have not been terribly aware of the outer world (i.e. anything
meta
I want to take a small break from my thesis-writing to thank some folks for the very kind things they've said about me and done for me lately. First, thanks to you, reader, for stopping by my little corner of the big wide Internet. And thanks to those
education
I've learned that scientists, as a group, give pretty crappy talks. They love data and want to show you all the bits and pieces, even if there's really not time for that. They tell you things they have been working on so long and in such
reflection
My in-laws came for a visit last weekend. We usually see them every 4-6 weeks, but thanks to various winter storms, it had been more than two months since our last visit together. When they come out to see us, we often spend Saturday at our house and Sunday morning
chemophobia
Back in January, @realscientists (I believe it was @upulie at the time) was talking about nanotechnology and mentioned the growing knowledge about hazards: For example, it was only some time after we started working with carbon nanotubes that it became apparent that we should introduce protocols for working with them.
interactions
More thoughts from my trip to San Francisco. This really happened, and though you may think it's "not so bad," it still shook me. We waited for the light to change. A fire truck rolled past, and one of the firefighters caught my eye and waved
womenInScience
I recently returned from the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco. For my overview, see here. This post is about some things that troubled me, and that I've been thinking about a lot since. Patterns Very early on at BPS, I noticed a pattern. A speaker would finish
interactions
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1569"] The BPS abstract book, in dead-tree form [https://www.bethhaas.me/caption] I spent most of last week in San Francisco for the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, and I'd like to take a moment to recap
womenInScience
Choosing to end any phase of your life is never easy. As a woman, choosing to leave science is harder still. Although there are support groups and professional associations for women in science, there is little day-to-day support for staying. There is even less support for leaving. This article by
fluorescence
A paper out in PLoS ONE last month announces the discovery that a lot more fish fluoresce than we thought. 180 species of fish biofluoresce, with emission colors ranging from greens to reds: eels and rays are in the greens (λem around 530 nm) while scorpionfish and gobys are fairly